I was approached by a friend of mine a couple weeks ago about doing a commission for her wedding anniversary. She asked for two things- shades of blue in her wedding colors, and snowflakes. I drew up a few sketches, and once we decided on a the basic idea, I got to work this mixed media snowflake piece.

Boy, this piece is just bursting with texture!

Creative Embellishments has snowflake chippy’s in various sizes. I placed several of them on the surface of my blank canvas, then used watered down acrylics to spray some color all over.

Once the paint had dried nearly all the way, I removed the chipboard. The paint had dried underneath with a super cool print of the snowflake, marking a pattern on the surface.

I added some variation by daubing some more paint onto the surface with a sponge.

The background still needed some sparkle mistiness, so I spread some silver metallic paint on some plastic wrap, and used that to apply the paint to the canvas.

The chipboard was splashed with color from the first steps, but I added some of the metallic paint to give them more shimmer, then splashed them with a bit more blue.

Now for some modeling paste! I knew the basic look I wanted to achieve with the texture I would add, so I used a palette knife and my fingers to apply the paste.

I added my chipboard snowflakes to the wet paste, and made sure they were embedded solidly.

After the paste dried, I splashed it with some more fluid acrylic to blend it into the background.

Once everything was dry, I took some Snowflake Effects paste and added it in certain areas over the snowflakes and texture paste.

As the finishing touch, I added silver paint over the snow effect to give it a bit of shimmer, and a bit more to the surface of the canvas over the spots of texture I added.

Finished! I love that the piece looks like gusts of wind and snow. There’s so much movement, it’s awesome. I hope the new owner loves it as much as I do!!

Hi,
I wanted to come by and say hi. I met you on Daniela Uslan’s site. You and I were both interviewed by her. You mentioned the importance of building blogging relationships. I agree, so I came over. You and I sound like like-minded bloggers. Maybe, if you need a blogging tip or two, you’ll check out my site. That’s what I write about. Happy holidays to you.
Janice